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ROUET

ROUET is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.

As an opener, it rules out about 96.1% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A flutter wheel.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Wordle status

A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.

Playable guess

Yes

Included in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.

Possible answer

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How ROUET performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ROUET as a guess, but the solver does not list it as a possible answer.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 89.1% of games, misses completely in 10.9%, and leaves about 92 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,255 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

First-turn measures

All four describe ROUET used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

5.52 Entropy (bits)
92 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
96.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 99% of evaluated openers
0.43 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ROUET performed in the previous complete opener benchmark, against its captured answer snapshot. These research figures are separate from today's solver recommendations. See the data page for the method.

3.62 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#2,255 Rank among openers
Opening with ROUET left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.62 average. It ranks #2,255 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
84
3 guesses
961
4 guesses
1,082
5 guesses
205
6 guesses
20
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
EORTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
39%
All gray
11%

Feedback distribution

ROUET can come back 124 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

259 answers
226 answers
111 answers
106 answers
95 answers
89 answers
88 answers
85 answers
78 answers
75 answers
72 answers
68 answers
57 answers
44 answers
43 answers
43 answers
34 answers
33 answers
27 answers
27 answers
27 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
23 answers
21 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
18 answers

Letter-value totals

Base letter-value totals for ROUET; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.

Scrabble

R1O1U1E1T1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.

Strategy after playing ROUET

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to ROUET.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ROUET:

11% chance
Suggested:
SLAIN
10% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
5% chance
Suggested:
CAIRN

Follow-ups for common patterns

Ranked follow-up guesses for the 10 most common feedback patterns.

10.9%
SLAIN 5.71 bits
9.5%
SLANE 5.43 bits
4.7%
CAIRN 4.65 bits
4.5%
CRARE 4.47 bits
4.0%
SALON 5.18 bits
3.7%
LAIDE 3.59 bits
3.7%
NASTY 4.70 bits
3.6%
LUMPY 4.14 bits
3.3%
ARSON 4.18 bits
3.2%
SADLY 4.21 bits

Research on ROUET

Game-tree analysis and word research for ROUET, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with ROUET, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.62 guesses and ranks #544 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with ROUET can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, at or below the proven-optimal 3.62, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it ROOEHT. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.